IMO, Trump is fundamentally an open borders kind of guy. His abrasiveness meant an inability to appeal to core portions of the middle, so he had to revert to fulfilling his campaign promises on immigration to please his voter base on the right. This is why he started the wall so late and kept delaying any action on DACA.
As one Freeper noted, Trump keeps deliberately doing things in such a way that his efforts will be struck down by the courts - [Quote: the court relied on the fact that Trump did not actually rescind DACA with an Executive Order. He had one of the agencies do it thru “rule-making”]. I’m sure Trump thinks his deliberate sabotage of the base’s objectives/buck-passing while disingenuously signaling his support for those objectives is very clever. Problem is that many voters don’t really care about his weasel words. They want DACA gone. He can point to the courts doing an end run around his buck-passing, but the reality is that the buck stops at his desk. He needs to stop tweeting and start doing. Instead, he just talked about an executive order to formalize DACA.
There is a certain home team type allegiance to Trump on Free Republic. Thing is, this is a very narrow slice of the electorate. A good chunk of it - the chunk that decides elections - just wants to see results on things like DACA. And by results, they don’t mean amnesty.
That is an interesting point.
“IMO, Trump is fundamentally an open borders kind of guy.”
What a pile of dog crap.
President Trump is, and always has been, an America First President, but he’s not stupid.
The Left’s best hope of upending the President’s America First agenda would be to obtain disturbing video footage of tens of thousands of illegals being forcibly deported by Trump - along with nonstop fake news comparisons to Jews being loaded onto cattle cars by the Nazis - to pull on the heartstrings of the American people.
This bleeding heart shit is as old as the hills, and President Trump is not nearly dumb enough to get baited into ordering mass deportations - that would be the Left’s political dream come true.
There will be no mass deportations - certainly not the grown-up children of illegals who have no other home to return to - because President Trump’s parents didn’t raise a fool.
But you already knew all that.